Food Bank appeals for more volunteer help during summer service drought

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Boy Scout Seth Latchana, 6, of Flint, places a cake in a food bin on Saturday at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint while volunteering in this February file photo.

FLINT, MI -- The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan is asking for volunteers need to help sort food over the summer.

"Summer typically brings a slowdown in volunteerism at a time when hunger knows no season here in eastern Michigan," the Flint-based anti-hunger group said in a news release.

The Food Bank is in need of extra hands to sort, re-pack process and inspect donated food products, to build holiday and senior boxes, and to stock shelves in the organization's Lapeer Road pantry.

Contact Megan Buysse at 810-396-0210 for more information on volunteering.

The group, along with the Salvation Army and the Greater Flint Sunrise Rotary have planned a food giveaway scheduled Thursday, June 7 at 10 a.m. until supplies are gone.

The event is a drive-through distribution in which those receiving food will remain in their vehicles outside the Salvation Army's Downtown Flint headquarters, 211 W. Kearsley St.

Vehicles are asked to line up along Kearsley Street starting at Beach Street and around the corner on Church Street.

Recipients will be asked to show identification. Those without vehicles can walk directly to the distribution area, the Salvation Army announced in a news release.